Starring in “The Man Who Came to Dinner” will be Paul LeFevre as Sheridan Whiteside, Deidre Bridge as Lorraine Sheldon, Don LaDuke as Bert Jefferson, and Jane Button as Maggie Cutler.

EPPING — Director Elaine Gatchell and Leddy Center present the hilarious comedy, “The Man Who Came to Dinner” by Kaufman and Hart, the great playwrights of “You Can’t Take It With You” fame presented by Leddy Center last spring.

This year’s play, which runs March 15-24, is set in the small town of Mesalia, Ohio, in the weeks leading to Christmas in the 1930s. The exposition reveals that the famously outlandish radio wit, Sheridan Whiteside of New York City, played by Paul LeFevre of Rochester, was invited to dine at the house of rich factory owner, Ernest W. Stanley, played by Greg deZarn-O’Hare of Fremont, and his family. However, before Whiteside enters the house, he slips on a patch of ice outside the front door and injures his hip. He is attended by Dr. Bradley, the absent-minded town physician, played by Kevin Murphy of Danville, and Miss Preen, his dutiful nurse, played by Amy Dube of Exeter.

Jane Button of Lee is Maggie, Sheridan’s sharp-edged secretary, Diedre Bridge is Lorraine Sheldon, the beautiful movie star, and Don LaDuke of Litchfield is Bert Jefferson, the handsome reporter who sweeps Maggie off her feet. Wonderful characters who make up the rest of this outstanding cast are Janell Wyman, Greg Dixon, Gregory Johnson, Chelsea Bailey, Stephanie Johnson, Eddie McGee, Diane Figara, Lynn Rockwell, John Seymour, Mark Deyo, Chris Wood, Bobby Collinge as Banjo, and Rob Dionne, Director of the Majestic Theater in Manchester, as the famous Englishman, Beverly Carlton.

Ryan Dever, Ian Dever, Spencer Gregory, and Inle Bush make up the Boys’ Choir, a musical interest note at the end of Act II.

Tickets are $18 and $16 online at leddycenter.org, or by calling the box office, Monday through Friday, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at 603-679-2781.